Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-06-07

His oountenanee wears crafty expires
sion, and yet he allowed himself to bt
April fooled by genial little party Of
gentlemen from Boston, who salted the
central branch OF the Union Pacific rail-
road by holding back ell the freight 10,
two weeks in order to have it on the road
while Jay was examining the property.
Jay Gould would attract very little
attention here on the streets, but he
would certainly be looked upon With
suspicion in Paradise. A man who
would fail to remember that he had ST..
600 ,o00 that belonged TO the Erie road,
but who does not forget to remember
whenever he paid his own hotel bills al
Washington, ia the kind Of man who
would pull up and pawn the pavemente
OF paradise within thirty days after he
got there.
After looking over the above statemen,
carefully, / feel called upon, in justlcs
to myself to state that DIR. Burchard did
assist me in constructing the last sen.
tence.
For those boys who wish to emulate
the example OF jay Gould the example
OF jay Gould 10 good example for them
to emulate. !
III any little boy in New York on this
beautiful Sabbath morning desires to
jeopardIze h,s immortal soul in order to
be tsyond the reach OF want and to ride
ge;ly over the sunllt billowa where the
the cruel fangs OF the excise lop-sided
memory swap friends for funds, and wise
counsel fer crooked consols.
II bad thought OF all this es came
down the front steps at Iryangton the
other day 1 would have ssid tito Mr.,
Gould but i didtnot think of il until
got home. A mans best thoughts fre-
quentiy come to him too late for publ.
cation. 5s
Butthe name oi jay Gould will not
60 down to future generations linked
with those OF Howard and Wilberforce.
II will not go very, far anyway. In this
age of miliionaires, millionaire more or
less does not count very much, and only
the good miliionRires who sbaptize and
beaetify their wealth In the eternal SUM-
light Of unsel6shness will have any claim
on immortality. 8 & & :.
/ In this period Of progress and high
grade civilization. when Satan takes
humanity mp to the top OF Q high moun-
tain aud shows his railroads and hia
kerosene oil andshis distilleries and his
Golfers filled with pure leaf lard, and
says: HAll this viii / give you for q
seat in the senate."a . common million
aire with no originality OF design does
not exotic any more curiosity on Broad
way thar young man who is led about
by little eoru dog.
I, do not wish to crush capital with
labor, or to further intensity the feeling
which already exists between the two,
for am q land holder and taxpayer my
self; but say that the man who never
mixes up with the common people, un-
less he ia summoned TO explain some-
thing and shake the months out OF his
memory, will some day, when the grass
grows green over his own grave find
himself controlled by the same kind OF
Q memory on the part Of mankind.
I do not say all this became was
treated in on of hand manner by Mr.,
Gould, but because think /. ought to
be said.
As said before Jay Gould is consid-
erably below the medium height and I
am not going to take it bsck.
He is man who will some day cit ous
on the corner OF new planet with his
little pink railroad maps on his knee,
and ask, "Where am / ?" and the echoes
from every musty corner Of ro1asmatic
oblivion will take up the question and
rsfer ID to the judiciary cemittee; but IL
will ourl up and die like the minority
report against big railroad land grant I
BILL NYE.